TEAM: Technology in Learning
Team Leader: Bruce Stavert
Date: 19/11/98
1. PEDAGOGY
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Action to be taken |
| 1. To change the PEDAGOGY as
follows: * Students use higher order thinking skills to enhance their learning * Teachers to become "curriculum brokers" as well as subject specialists * Technology becomes a tool for enhancing learning |
- Promote the new pedagogy. - Imbed new pedagogy in curriculum materials (eg syllabuses). - Hardware / Software resources in place to support new pedagogy. |
- Promote new pedagogy to
staff / students / parents / community. - Raise awareness for principals in new vision for pedagogy. |
- NSWSPC reps to meet with
DET personnel with power to facilitate these changes. - NSWSPC reps to meet with the NSW teachers Federation. |
| 2. Develop the virtual
classroom: * Establish pilot projects, model schools, expert teachers, hardware & software support etc ** |
- Establish a model school. - Fund release of staff to participate in model school. |
- Allocate resources. | - Survey schools to identify
best practice examples. - Ask Technology Advisers to identify examples of best practice. |
| 3. Training and Development
for all Teachers: * In use of technology in learning * In their new role as facilitator / navigator / broker in student centered learning * Technologically competent teachers go into schools to support new approach to pedagogy. |
- Replace training staff by
technologically expert staff in home schools. - Establish basic competency levels for teachers in technology. |
Expand access points to IT and beyond. | - Identifying technological
approaches taken by other education providers. - Meeting with the Student Learning Team to clarify and coordinate the proposed view of the pedagogical issues. |
** Set up a model school with expert teachers (eg at the Australian Technology Park) where best practice pedagogy incorporating best practice pedagogy in learning takes place (staff of experts) and a mobile student population. Perhaps use a project oriented curriculum. Then take 25% of the staff from a school for a 10 week period to teach in the model school and have 1 to 1 monitoring by the experts. They then constitute a critical mass to go back to their schools.
2. CURRICULUM
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| 1. Establish a cross-KLA approach to curriculum. | Board of Studies and Government work to dismantle KLAs. | Council meets with the Board of Studies. (President / Managers) | |
| 2. Syllabuses: * Develop more flexible process-oriented syllabuses, * Build technology use into all syllabuses and assessment, * Report student competencies in technology. |
Board of Studies to
reconsider the nature of syllabuses. Technology pedagogy to be mandated. Reduce face to face teaching for teachers. |
Report student "Technology Literacy". | Council meets with the
Curriculum Directorate. (Judy Byrne) A & R? |
| 3. Hardware / Software /
Access: * Develop user friendly hardware / software, * Harness industry knowledge and expertise in the development of software / hardware, * Broaden access points for students (internet, intranet etc), * Establish global partners across the world. |
Involve teachers in software
development. Ensure all schools are cabled and have multi-access to the internet. |
Link with individuals, schools - interstate and internationally. | Technology planning group (Technology in Learning Team) meets with IT companies. |
3. RESOURCES
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| 1. Redesign buildings and learning spaces to integrate technology in learning. | Upgrade school facilities -
furniture and cabling. Redesigning buildings. |
Create flexible learning spaces. | NSW Secondary Principals
Council to talk to: - Properties - Information Technology Directorate |
| 2. Schools have ready access to cheap and appropriate software / hardware. | Supply software and hardware cheaply to all schools. | Principals use software / hardware to promote Information Technology use in learning. | Finance |
| 3. Schools have an Information Technology manager per school to ensure it works. IT Manager to be a technical expert. | Fund Information Technology
(IT) Managers. Course in IT supplied by the Department over the Web and CD ROM. |
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| 4. Expand off-site learning through outside accessing of IT. | Provide sufficient ISDN lines to enable good access. |